innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. in. france pushes to retake mali from islamist militants as battles rage across the country while the number of victims in the algerian hostage crisis triggered by the campaign rises to forty eight. president barack obama officially begins his second term in office with manning waiting to see if he will deliver on numerous promises on domestic and foreign issues. japan warrants china over its naval presence near disputed islands in the east china sea as beijing slams washington stance on the territorial conflict.

you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow at am in the russian capital twenty five more bodies have been found in the wake of the algerian desert hostage crisis bringing the total number of confirmed victims to forty eight algeria says the of arrested five suspect the islamist attackers after earlier reports that all thirty two militants have been killed in the operation to end the siege by foreign nationals still remain unaccounted for as the search for bodies in this horrific gas plant facility continues to linked group claimed they were there behind the attack which they say is a revenge for french intervention in neighboring mali heavily armed insurgents rate of the planned on wednesday with an initial derian response drawing criticism from western nations as artie's probably boyko now reports the campaign in mali which sparked the hostage situation appears to be part of a french geopolitical chanda. we do always but it's terrorism was about to

overwhelm the friendly country the terrorism that threatens not just all of west africa but also the entire world get more to move he's vowed that france won't stop its intervention in mali until islamic extremism in the country is stamped out the military has announced that it's going to be sending more troops but the total set to exceed two hundred thousand a stated goal to help the government in bamako drive out his list insurgents before the francois alarms talk of freedom and democracy critics say the french government you see as a for the military offensive could be linked to other elements u.a.d. of these fronts. many people say huge causes it's a huge factor in its economy and it's something that not only mali but specifically niger and other and neighboring parts where the tourist people reside. sits on top of almost every single light bulb in france runs on electricity generated by

nuclear power power relies on a steady flow of here raney and so you don't have to be a nuclear physicist to figure out that to keep all these bright lights on the french government depends on a steady flow of the precious natural resource but malise says micio land is not about power or money. secured this is nothing to do with any political issue from a different time if we are defending a government or business interests which government which business. some have their suspicions nationally or to approach energy companies. is to finish the second largest ukrainian mining plant in the world next to mali share cars to exactly this uranium is going to be very cheap there's a third world very cheap. france is playing

a very dangerous game and after the french military offensive reportedly sparked a deadly hostage crisis in algeria light bulbs are beginning to go off in the heads of ordinary citizens to pour out almost. for its invention if it is to fight terrorism but it's got to be for good reasons to know that it's for raw materials that are. spoiled diamonds and gold already to go. to perth or they don't think about that well we have made paris a huge target and france a target. at least but with the prospect of untapped natural resources needed to keep fronts the limited political analysts say that for a promise to stop playing big brother to form a colony it's isn't going to be fulfilled anytime soon the party boy can see paris. france meanwhile says it's aiming to retake all of mali by driving out

islamists from the west african nation this as the french military carry out airstrikes on rebel targets on their regions often both to and gal the town meanwhile has not been fully liberated with french troops moving in to secure the key location in central mali more ground forces have also and are in a nearby town the push towards the islamist controlled north while only around one hundred soldiers from the african led contingent have arrived so far out of nearly six thousand set for deployment international relations professor mark almond says the current situation in mali is a result of the french led libya intervention and will result in further chaos across the region and. we're getting a kind and i look into this problem to kind of back off from that intervention because you have not ordered through what's going to happen if you. don't actually put anything stable in its place quite conscious spreads and similarly in mali the people to. is that france is intervening to stop chaos but the risk must be from

what we've seen with interventions before that the french intervention will actually tend to send recalls and disorder further around the region and nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups can come from somewhere other than mali it seems they have a course nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons it's being produced by the quest to get off the regime but also the complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially the world's operating in different parts of libya. barack obama is now officially beginning his second presidential term after being sworn in at the white house on monday is expected to spell out his vision the next four years and pledge to deliver on some promises he's so far failed to keep are just going to reports from washington. it's generally thought that a second term said to us president on walks those hand cups that kept them from

doing great things in their first term because they had to think about getting reelected all the time in the last four years we've heard many times president obama's hands are tied on this issue word that issue suppose this election has on tied his hands we don't have a crystal ball to tell you what he's going to do with those three presidential hands but we may already see signs of what is to come president obama steps into his second term carrying a heavy load of promises and want to cut the growth of two or should it over the next eight years we've got to cut the deficit by four trillion dollars over the next january so long as i'm commander in chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known along with the pledge the threat of another devastating war ended with. four years president obama pushed to a great extent by israel as war with iraq i will take no options off the tape and i mean what i say. is that some believe the appointment of chuck hagel as defense

secretary who is known to have been against the strike on iran may be a sign that the new obama administration will be less warmongering towards the bridge but two of the country's leading middle east experts orange convinced vision i would bet a certain amount of money we will hear the words all options are on the table come out of his come out of his mouth in addition to the point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue what many of the covert programs of course are drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for. coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran john brennan has been in charge of president obama's targeted assassinations program. is a point of push the notorious war on terror in a different perspective and shows that it's far from over they want wars that will

not redound against them at home politically so they don't want any more body bags they don't want more american troops killed to the extent they want to prevent that they want to have all the soldiers sitting in alexandria virginia or los angeles or whatever and running the groans that are killing people whether it's afghanistan or yemen or iran or you know were else however over the next four years the administration's reach will extend far beyond the middle east as it is said to continue its pivot to asia as well as building a missile shield provocatively close to russia's borders last year in a hot mike moment president obama told russia's made me very if that in his second term he'd be more flexible to discuss moscow less certain. but it could turn out to be flexibility to words only rather than action if. russia is still out of the opposed to it still sees it as as a we're just going to have to go

a little while president obama may have more control over foreign policy domestically there is a greater chance of his agenda getting bogged down in congress like gun control and the executive orders are useless and legislative proposals and i suspect will not pass in this country and i don't think it's in the offing and he were in the near future because we are a culture that is very deeply. in love with our guns in the last four years congress more than was attempted to sabotage the president on economic issues including reaching a last minute deal as the country teetered on the edge of fiscal cliff when presidents who have trouble with congress like to do international things because they have to worry about congress much less the president's actions so far his show will possibility that in the next four years he will be anymore. flexible on major foreign policy issue with as far as the mess they can manage that whether he's never ending battle with congress will allow him to have significance beyond

inspiring speeches in washington and kind of take. what obama given a second chance to change james lark a former have america's libertarian party believes and how far it is futile. sure that we should give president obama credit for united states. i think we would have seen the united states coming out of our economic system where he should regard what president obama. stimulus and. when some ways efforts by the obama administration actually slow down the american with respect to the foreign policy there are are you hopeful signs over the nomination hate all by but given the extent to which the obama administration still seems to be wedded to program of using drones the hour has the various laws

specifically the issue of being able to target and assassinate people centrally around the world including the fears americans are not to take more sanguine about the prospects or must move forward toward the united states being a country which traces its international we and also desires that the liberties of our own people. so i am for the sour damascus calls on the syrian opposition to lay down our country's minister or names preconditions for talks while the opposition coalition seeks more backing to format a transitional government. running for your alliance later on we have the story of a half naked man who fell from a train in the middle of a frozen siberian forest and managed to survive.

it. japan's foreign ministry has lodged an official protest with china after three of its ships were sighted in the east china sea near disputed islands comes after beijing slammed washington's position on the conflict urging it to be careful with its words and maintain peace in the region the u.s. warned its against and action that would undermine japanese administration of the territories at the same time secretary of state hillary clinton sat in doesn't take a position arlen who has sovereignty over the islands china sand ships and planes to the area claiming it's exercising normal jurisdiction and its waters and airspace japan in turn said it may fire warning shots at foreign aircraft violating what it sees as territory the founder of international strategic alliances george

who says it's the us and japan who are escalating the tension that the us has this role of being the policeman around the world and spreading the military forces all around the world now can they afford it but that's a different question because it seems like in order to to meet their military budget which is ever increasing they're probably going to have to borrow the money and most likely they'll be borrowing the money from the chinese china has. been. asking japan to recognize and go she rather than rushing ratcheting up the tension of course japan and inviting electing it's not going to help because it is very well known. in this particular situation and the u.s. for its own strategic reasons view japan as to prefer and that's what's in

agree this friction but i am not sure that i think cooler heads will will come and not go to war over these little specks of violence certainly china has never been. the aggressor in terms of in terms of these disputes. now syria's opposition coalition is struggling to form an interim government the hat of the group has flown to qatar trying to secure promises of financial aid for its in rebel held areas the opposition is mulling the idea of a government in exile with differences remaining over who should lead the new executive this is a serious foreign minister has called on assets opponents to lay down arms and starting a national dialogue the opposition groups that will reject their earlier call for talks see more support from their western and arab backers a step political analyst says despite the support of the syrian opposition is incapable of forging a united front. you are not will see shunned by the americans some elements

are brought with. him to a broader. meaning and. then in syria we'll make sure it's true. and then you however be wrong this will be big no. part in syria which is the boston brotherhood on their. own the news when you can go for missions you also have in the home of times the rebel forces in syria like brigade preceding an army they are named you have to be a new structure on a litter you had these from the slums right there aren't close or won't try to. deal with ensuring the secular bylines order of members of your position so really we see the. whole mind of the opposition and there will be recurrent d.c. the only thing they have in common is that they want to remove the government in

damascus. now israel seems to be bringing up a generation of young patriots for money as government award bonuses to high school girls who succeed in motivating students to do their army service for more on that had to r.t. dot com. also online in europe in case since now as extremely low temperatures result in death and transport hair loss across the continent. what mystery is hidden deep the niece. says it is welcome here. traps laid for intruders. and the supernatural cannot rise from nowhere. human be

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market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. there's a report on our. welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to life from moscow now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a gun battle is reportedly underway in the afghan capital kabul on a road leading to the parliament building this fall is a triple suicide bomb attack on the city's traffic department witnesses say the assault was followed by several other blasts and gunfire with smoke seen billowing from the scene it's not immediately clear if there were any casualties in the assault. and comes as the report claims that afghan security forces torture nearly

a third of all detainees transferred to their control by u.s. forces according to the u.n. the statement says kabul is operating secret sites for the abuse of prisoners to avoid international scrutiny i had of the full nato withdrawal the allegations could hand there are plans for a full handover of security responsibilities to afghan forces by twenty four to. the ruling coalition of german chancellor angela merkel has been defeated in crucial regional elections where the center left opposition winning if in victory the outcome of the ballot in lower saxony is seen as a final rehearsal for a parliamentary election is a tambor merkel is seeking a third term in office and despite his setback still enjoys popularity in the country's other problems so. a court house has been set on fire. in the egyptian city of alexandria following day long clashes between riot police and protesters demonstrators were demanding justice in the trial of former

security officers accused of killings during the twenty eleven uprising violence first erupted when the presiding judge abruptly resigned without carrying out his duties. as well a president of a chavez is reported to be gaining strength and recovering well following respiratory complications after cancer surgery and that's according to vice president nicolas maduro the doors has met with the leader and discussed important issues of state chavez should have taken his oath on the tenth of january but hasn't been seen in public since his latest operation in mid december prompting outrage from the opposition demanding to elections. now have the twenty second of january election manny israelis who used to support prime minister abandon netanyahu are changing their minds is now viewed by manny as not being radical enough although still expected to return to office netanyahu is

likely to lose votes to his former right wing allies as are his policy are now reports. he's the surprise success story in campaign one twin millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for his room enough to the bin it used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working at taking supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a lift wing person driving the bus. as far as being i mean. yes even though i am opposed to it. i would say most members of the likud obviously is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as a right wing leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused

enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one never happened the sopranos will never return for another season. growing our pro and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than twelve percent of parliamentary seats analysts say little yahoo was still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's our right not on your hands we could list has grown even more right wing with radicals like this woman high up in the pecking order. but then the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is a state of the jews whose eternal capital is jerusalem.

but what will be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters. is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left. leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy enough to the bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self-will in the wrist and while that might not seem

a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact in a time yahoo is acutely aware of the r.t. television. catching a train became a matter of life and death for a one russian man who fell from his carriage in subzero temperatures in a siberian forest earlier artiest on barton told my colleague john thomas the story . if we picture the scene we've got forty two year old valarie malkoff a lorry driver in this train clickety clack ing its way through the forests in the a more region in russia's far east at night they decide to go for a cigarette but nothing special so he goes to the vestibule at the end of the carriage smokes his cigarette and then as he stays went to open the door to go back to his carriage except it was the wrong door and he falls out the back of the train so he rapidly realizes that he is not just running to catch up with the train but for his very life we managed to talk to him earlier he was

a little bit embarrassed about the whole thing when i found out i only had parents slippers and t. shirts but i ran for seven kilometers i didn't curse him in a tap and i just saw the train was gone so i came quickly to my senses and started running so that i didn't freeze i ran on the railway track for about twenty or thirty minutes when i go to the nearest station their eyes are parked out after they saw a man with almost no clothes on women there quickly gave me tea and reported what just happened i didn't tell this to anybody my wife found out about the incident only after journalists called her i would imagine that the phone call he had with his wife after she had found help not from him but from journalists was possibly a little bit strained luckily he's ok no injuries no hypothermia he's back at work there will be an investigation into perhaps the whether the train guard had forgotten to lock the back door of the train which as we can see was a probably quite a big oversight if it turns out that that was what happened it's also possibly one

factor that made him run a bit faster was that we've recently reported on in the far east in siberia there's been quite a lot of problems with packs of ravenous wolves being there so i imagine if we had that in mind if you knew about that possibly something to spur him on a bit faster. and then just a few minutes joined darrell balun his pal get some crosstalk stay with us for that . speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the ip interviews intriguing story for you. in trying. to find out more visit

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